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Many of Bennett's themes resonate with boomer parents who were '60s liberals but now seek an antidote to the antisocial, materialist messages their children are absorbing from popular culture. And as someone who himself played guitar in a rock band, had a date with Janis Joplin, opposed the Vietnam War and campaigned for civil rights in Mississippi, Bennett demonstrates through his personal journey how far America has moved during the past three decades on cultural issues...
Bennett shared his charges' interest in touch football, beer and especially rock music. (He once stopped traffic on the New Jersey Turnpike when he noticed the toll taker's badge and asked, "Hey, are you the Tommy Facenda who sang High School U.S.A.?") Bennett opposed the Vietnam War, but he respected the men who served there. He grew sickened by much of what he saw at Harvard: privileged youth skipping class to smoke dope and watch soap operas, and twisting the antiwar movement into an attack on America. Like another former Democrat, Ronald Reagan, Bennett thought less that...
...return to Stanford to get his degree, Tiger turned pro. It was the logical next step in a life tailored by his father and mother to make him exactly what he is. "This is the first black intuitive golfer ever raised in the U.S.," Earl Woods, a Vietnam veteran, told SPORTS ILLUSTRATED last year. "Before, black kids grew up with basketball or football or baseball from the time they could walk. The game became part of them from the beginning. Tiger knew how to swing a club before he could walk...
...seemed to belong almost to different species. The '60s had a genius for excess and caricature. On one side, the love-it-or-leave-it, proud, Middle American, Okie-from-Muskogee, traditionalist nation of squares who supported the cold war assumptions that took Lyndon Johnson ever deeper into Vietnam. On the other side, the "countercultural" young, either flower children or revolutionaries, and their fellow-traveling adult allies in the antiwar movement, the Eugene McCarthy uprising against L.B.J., people whose hatred of the war in Vietnam led them into ever greater alienation from American society and its figures of authority...
...about the reception she will receive this week. "She's still our baby. We want her to be O.K." Nancy Mace, 18, is the daughter of retired Army Brigadier General J. Emory Mace, Citadel class of '63, who remains the school's most decorated alumnus for his service in Vietnam. Until recently, Mace confesses, he was among those who balked at integrating the school. Now, though, he says, "It's a new day, there's a new law of the land, and we live with realities...